ELIS Land scape CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW anything and nothing. My main focus during a performance or collaborate with another the process is trusting my taste and intuitions, person, and so on. I’m a very curious and my main question during the process - “what not-afraid-to-try-new-things artist. In the if?” past few years I’ve worked with collages, photography, videos, installations, found You are a versatile artist and your artistic objects, performances-happenings, poetry practice encompasses performance, and texts, bodies, psychology, philosophy, installation, text, collage, photography and pain, death, identity, sexuality, femininity video, to develop suchvery performative and genderness. There are no boundaries for physical pieces. More specifically, we have me, at least i think so now. I’m very appreciated the wayWitchcraftingconveys unpredictable in my art practices and in life. bothsense of freedom and particular Every project is different and I’m also not attention to epiphanic details: how do you the same as I was even yesterday, therefore consider the relationship between the everything I create is so diverse. necessity of scheduling the details of your performative gestures andthe need of By questioning the dichotomy between life spontaneity? How important isimprovisation and death, as well as the themes of truth in your creative process? and freedom, your artistic production draws from your Soviet origins and artistic I don't divide life and art, for me it all is one philosophy. To quote Mexican artist Gabriel thing and i’m in it, and i’m it. So whatever i do Orozco "artists's role differs depending on in life can become art in the future or already is which part of the world they’re in", does art. Spontaneous decisions and ideas play big your artistic research respond to a part in my creative endeavors. I like when particular cultural moment? In particular, some mistakes happen (not too devastating) how does yourcultural substratum direct but enough to make it interesting and your artistic research? unexpected for me to leave it, enjoy it, learn from it and play along with it. Because Of course my visions were influenced by my mistakes are those markers in time that only post-soviet surroundings. Although growing could happen there and then with me being up i wasnt happy with it (i was depressed) involved and fixating those moments. But at and tried to escape, during my later year, in the same time i call myself a chameleon - i can my late twenties, i began to incorporate it adapt to environments and challenges and into my art, creating video collages and GIFs projects. But when i’m free to do how i like it, with what i thought is another version of then this is when the magic happens hehehe beauty. And through this practice i’ve just watch me go and observe the whitchcraft learned to appreciate my environment and appear. It might start with a poem, then people in it, oh and myself as well. But at the develop into a collage or drawing or same time i never really fit in in ukraine and installation, then some videos might happen its mentality; i had to find ways to explore and photographs, then it all can interrelate the world and its cultures. So even though with one another, then i might want to create my passport says that i’m ukrainian, i dont